SanDisk Announces 128 GB USB Flash Drive

[freggo]

What a useless 'article'.
Even as an Ad it is not worth much. Doesn't even tell if USB 2.0 or 3.0

128GB on USB 2.0... who'd want to bother as it would take forever plus a day to transfer anything meaningful in or out of it.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]unf0rgiving[/nom]And when that 50TB fails...oh boy...MY PRONNNN![/citation]

At that point, they would be in PNG, 4K resolution. Don't worry, less of your picture collection will be lost.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]digiex[/nom]Reasons big storage:1. Bloatwares2. HD Movies which ridiculous resolutions cannot even perceived by the human eye.3. HD Audio with ridiculous bit rates cannot even perceived by the human ears.[/citation]

Even on average-ish displays (less than 24"), I can easily tell the difference between 1080p and 720p without needing to be ridiculously close to the display. The difference between poor quality audio and high quality audio is also easy to realize.

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i got my 64gb drive for about 70$ granted that was over 6 months ago, but its far from the price quoted above.the highest capacity drives do take a premium cost, that i wont argue,[/citation]

Flash prices, even in USB sticks, drop fairly quickly, perhaps even faster than in high-performance internal SSDs. You can often find deals on good USB thumb drives up to 64GB in capacity, but not everywhere. Newegg often has 32GBs on sale for under $20 and some 64GBs aren't fair behind in price/GB.

For example, here's a 64GB thumb drive on newegg for under $50:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220674
and a link to many more:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007960%20600000447&IsNodeId=1&name=64GB

Many of them don't have reviews and one or two have poor reviews, so they probably aren't all good-quality, but at least some of them are and still under $50. It's not quite as much capacity per dollar as the 32GB models, but it's pretty good and at least some of them are probably a little faster than their 32GB brethren, so they might make up for the lost value in capacity per dollar in increased performance per dollar, or if not make it up completely, at least alleviate it.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]gorfmaster1[/nom]128 gb thumb drive for $250 or 128 gb SSD for 140.... you do the math[/citation]

USB thumb drives are more portable and are better supported by most machines due to using USB instead of using a higher-performance, but lesser supported interface. Many 128GB thumb drives are also much cheaper than $250.

 

[dark_lord69]

Eh...
give it a few months to a year and the 128GB flash drives will be $29.99 or less like the 32GB drives are now...
For me, my 32GB USB drive is enough space... If I want mass storage I can save to my local network drive.

 

[fil1p]

128GB thats nothing compared to the new victorinox swiss army knife with a 1TB flash drive! Thats right 1tb, but it costs $3000 so not entirely practical
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/victorinox-debuts-3000-swiss-army-knife-with-1tb-flash-drive/

 

[army_ant7]

Hm... I was thinking the same thing a lot of people were mentioning here. That the prices quoted above seemed too steep. Are those really the prices of SanDisk flash drives? I found this one and only 64GB SanDisk for about the same number of Dollars, but it does say it's on sale from a price above $100. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4484400&CatId=3787

What fil1p said above about a 1TB Victorinox seems to be true, and its for factor does seem to fit that of a thumb drive. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/victorinox-swiss-army-knife-ssd,14508.html (sorry, didn't notice the link above)

I just had to mention that because I myself though that 128GB drives were something to behold. But I wonder how dense their flash memory chips are compared to let's say that 1TB Victorinox.